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RE: Enhancements to improve fostering of communities in Steemit
If I have one major criticism of Steemit, it's that there's not enough real reading and conversation, compared to the quantity of posts.
I agree. There's considerate incentive for upvoting without reading just for curation rewards, and comment rewards which incentives generic "good post" comments.
That why I'm talking about communities, which make people gather around a niche generating real discussions.
Steemit doesn't quite offer the support for communities like subreddits do (tags are not quite there yet) which is something I've been thinking about and may write more in the future.
I was unaware that Reddit had solved that. Cool!
While it currently makes a lot of sense to use a wide variety of tags for optimal exposure, when a conversation is happening it tends to hone. For instance, I'm having a great discussion about mansplaining with @sic-savidicus. We're basically in agreement, but still discussing intelligently. It could be tagged under a variety of topics, but to get others who are genuinely interested in joining our discussion, we'd almost have to have posts going back and forth under a sub-topic instead of only comments on a single post. Individual posts rarely get the attention their content deserves. Connecting interested parties to the conversations that are happening would be easier if posts were individually relevant longer and if participants knew they'd be likely to get a response if they entered a conversation.
Thanks for engaging with me. :)